No News is Good News
My wife likes to have the news on. I just about snapped today because it's only a collection of a handful of stories over and over and over.
1- Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to be fired from Congress.
2-Black people are mistreated.
3-Everybody needs to wear their masks.
4-Some variation of how important the COVID vaccines are.
That's it. There is no other story on our feed on the tv in California. I actually agree with #2, mistreatment still happens at the hands of bad people. But it's reported as though the government isn't part of the problem, only part of the solution. Total B.S. These four topics make up 100% of our news. 100%! It's just round and round and round and round for hours and hours - even the same little clips of footage over and over and over. It is surreal...like something out of a bad movie, or something out of The Truman Show. It's the "2-Minute Hate" only it's for 2 hours. I keep turning it off. She likes the constant drone of background tv noise. You probably know somebody like that. But, I actually listen. That's my curse.
1- Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to be fired from Congress.
2-Black people are mistreated.
3-Everybody needs to wear their masks.
4-Some variation of how important the COVID vaccines are.
That's it. There is no other story on our feed on the tv in California. I actually agree with #2, mistreatment still happens at the hands of bad people. But it's reported as though the government isn't part of the problem, only part of the solution. Total B.S. These four topics make up 100% of our news. 100%! It's just round and round and round and round for hours and hours - even the same little clips of footage over and over and over. It is surreal...like something out of a bad movie, or something out of The Truman Show. It's the "2-Minute Hate" only it's for 2 hours. I keep turning it off. She likes the constant drone of background tv noise. You probably know somebody like that. But, I actually listen. That's my curse.
2- Democrat racism
3- Democrat slavery
4- Democrat idiocy
In KA the story should be about gun control.
Carefully point the loaded gun at the tv and pull the trigger.
Then get your wife some bluetooth headphones for her smart phone.
In their place I follow about 50 blogs and podcasts. Of course, none of them can be trusted 100% as unbiased -- but neither can the major media. Its consumers simply need to unlearn the bad habit of assuming that there's a "mainstream" and that the major media can be trusted to tell it to you.
So screw the concept of reputable, mainstream news sources.
When I divorced my first husband, the first thing I did when he left the house: I turned off the TV. For the first time in the 21 years we were married, there was golden, heavenly, delicious SILENCE. That was 29 years ago....haven't missed TV yet, though we did cave and get a Fire TV device so we can watch shows of OUR choice, at the time of our choosing. Hubby has the volume fed directly to his hearing aids, so if I don't want to listen, which is most of the time, I never hear it.
I can tell you, though: if I had to listen to that over and over all day, I'd be in prison for murder, no doubt about it. So, I strongly sympathize.
Wit's end. I'll go out into the front room to change the channel to something wholesome like Little House on the Prairie and find that he's napping in his chair. Bless his heart. I probably could have (and should have) changed the channel an hour ago. That much insidious programming isn't good for someone with pre-existing memory issues. Guess what he remembers?
The message is marketed very cleverly, the catch phrases ("in the arm" is the latest one I'm tracking), and the heartstrings-tugging pleas of actors in commercials is really frustrating for anyone paying attention.
And it's on every. single. station.
I understand it's good to Know Thy Enemy, especially the lies they tell and the strategies they use to manipulate. But I need a vacation from the propaganda. Anyone have a cabin in the woods and some dishes that need washing?
Here is one Fortune you have in this midst. You'd not be upset if you did not care.
Now it is a choice of how far outside your previous comfort zone you'll allow your actions to manifest.
What choices, based upon present, and potential relationships, can bring the most equity and happiness?
"Repetitio est mater studiorum" but not if "ad nauseam"!
Greetings to all.
Maritimus (a.k.a. Old Fogy)
If I don't shut it off fast enough I find myself shouting at the damn thing. It is not good for my blood pressure.